Sohl 079 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Roadcut on Mississippi State highway 10, 2.5 miles E of Pheba, Clay Co., Miss.

Where: Clay County, Mississippi (33.6° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 66.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, Prairie Bluff Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: W. H. Monroe 1936

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl. 1960. Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 331:1-151 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7576: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Turritella sp.
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes abyssinus moon snail
Gyrodes abyssinus (Morton)
 Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Pyropsis sp. Conrad 1860 snail
Pyropsis sp. C Sohl 1960
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
? Drilluta sp. Wade 1916 snail
Drilluta? sp.